Dreams Not Remembered
Dreams Not Remembered, an experimental film in four parts, explores grief from four modalities- historical constructivism, embodied experience, memory and forgetting, and survival and destruction. Each chapter, excluding Drifting, employs ecological approaches to alternative photographic processes that I have designed to be implemented with motion-picture film. This series exists in three iterations: as a performance with live narration, foley, and musical accompaniment, as a standalone, theatrically presented film, and as four interactive installations that flow from chapter to chapter. The chapters are as follows: Dreams Not Remembered, Drifting, When the Seeds Say Enough, and The Four Columns.
Dreams Not Remembered
Dreams Not Remembered, serving as the opening chapter of the tetralogy of the same name, is an exploration of the personal archive of my great-great-grandfather. Despite having never met him, I find myself the sole custodian of his archive of original musical compositions, handwritten lyrics, sketches, poems, and 16mm films. Bound by lineage yet distant in connection, our shared heritage manifests through the land we inhabit, despite how alien our temporal experiences may be. This work weaves together his self-produced home movies, contemporary footage, and a rendition of his song “With You Again in Dreams,” performed by Eileen O’Brien, to construct an understanding of his life and the people he cherished most.
This film was shot on16mm Tri-X B&W Reversal film that underwent the mordançage process and eco-friendly dyeing.
5m22s. 2024.
